KeyShare Connect: Identity-Based Access on Mercury Controllers
Announced at ISC West 2026
Your identity is the credential.
Mercury Security announced the commercial launch of their embedded application environment this week, and KeyShare Connect is one of the launch partner applications.
From Mercury’s announcement:
“The KeyShare Connect app will enable government-issued digital IDs — such as mobile driver’s licenses — to be verified for physical access within a Mercury-powered environment, running natively on the Mercury controller at the edge. Together, PassiveBolt and Mercury will help eliminate the need to issue, manage, or pay for separate access credentials.”
This is the milestone we’ve been building toward.
What KeyShare Connect Does
KeyShare Connect turns a government-issued mobile driver’s license or passport-derived credential into a physical access credential. The identity your employees already carry becomes the key. It runs natively on Mercury MP controllers, where it performs deterministic credential derivation at the edge: the controller takes the verified identity and mathematically derives a site-specific identifier that works exactly like a card number in your PACS. Nothing stored on the phone. Nothing transmitted over the network. Different for every site.
It integrates with your existing PACS software. The current demo runs on Genetec Security Center, with additional PACS integrations on the roadmap. Nothing ripped out. Nothing replaced.
A security officer enters a name and date of birth. The employee taps their phone at the reader. The door unlocks. Enrollment to door unlock in under 60 seconds.
Mixed-Mode: Both Paths, One System
Not every employee has a digital ID yet. KeyShare Connect supports mixed-mode deployment: digital IDs and traditional credentials coexisting on the same system, the same readers, the same doors. Employees with digital IDs use them at zero credential cost. Employees without them keep their existing credentials. Everything coexists.
Total credential spend drops 50 to 70 percent. Projects that were killed at the business case stage become viable. This isn’t about replacing credentials. It’s about giving enterprises a choice they don’t have today.
The NFID Foundation
The reader-level identity verification component — the NFID Verifier Library — is being open-sourced through the NFID Foundation, a vendor-neutral standards body we founded for verifiable credentials in physical access control. Open verification at the reader edge. Commercial intelligence at the panel.
See It Live
We’re demonstrating KeyShare Connect on production Mercury MP1502 hardware at ISC West 2026, Booth #8053.
I’m also speaking at the show:
Identity is the New Key: How Digital IDs Will End the Credential Tax Wednesday, March 25 | 2:00 PM | Digital Trust & Identity Featured Area Session details →
If you’d like to schedule time at the show, book a meeting.
